Passengers sue Spirit Airlines for 'failing to protect' them from in-flight brawl and 'continuing to serve alcohol to their drunk attackers' 

  • Three passengers are suing Spirit Airlines after a brawl on board a flight 
  • Women say they were injured during the fight on service to Los Angeles
  • Brawl came after they had asked other passengers to turn down music
  • They say Spirit did not protect them and had been 'over-serving' alcohol 

Passengers who claimed they were assaulted when a brawl erupted over a boom box speaker on a Spirit Airlines flight say they are suing the carrier.

A fight erupted on Flight 141 from Baltimore to LA last month, after reports two drunk women had been playing loud music out of the speaker during the trip.

Several passengers asked the pair to turn the music down, but instead they put the boom box in the air and started waving it around.

Passengers Lisa Zampella, Tykisha Diodato and Danielle AFonda-Thomas with their lawyer Gloria Allred, who say they are to sue Spirit Airlines 

Passengers Lisa Zampella, Tykisha Diodato and Danielle AFonda-Thomas with their lawyer Gloria Allred, who say they are to sue Spirit Airlines 

A group of women then approached the two when the plane pulled up at the gate, starting an all-out brawl, which was captured on video.

Now three passengers who were caught up in the brawl say they are to sue Spirit Airlines claiming they failed to protect them from injury and continued to serve alcohol despite the aggressive atmosphere.

Passenger and plaintiff Tykisha Diodato told the New York Daily News: 'I am upset that the Spirit Airlines failed to protect us, disregarded our safety, and instead continued to serve the women in front of us alcoholic beverages even though they were clearly intoxicated and behaving aggressively.'

Ms Diodato added that she and fellow plaintiffs Lisa Zampella and Danielle Fonda-Thomas were flying from Baltimore to Los Angeles for a long-awaited vacation.

The brawl that erupted on the Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles over the playing of loud music 

The brawl that erupted on the Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles over the playing of loud music 

Several passengers asked the pair of females to turn the music down, but instead they put the boom box in the air and started waving it around

Several passengers asked the pair of females to turn the music down, but instead they put the boom box in the air and started waving it around

But they claim three other passengers began drinking alcohol and playing loud music from a bluetooth speaker.

They say that after they were asked to stop swearing and keep the noise down, one of the women attacked Ms Fonda Thomas, with the other two women also suffering injuries when they jumped to her defense.

Their lawyer Gloria Allred said: 'It was not a mutual combat situation as some have described in prior reports.'

However, a spokesman for Spirit Airlines denied the claims saying the flight attendants were in their jump seats as required by law and it is their policy not to over-serve alcohol.

The brawl on the flight. Now three women who claimed they were injured during the fight are suing Spirit Airlines 

The brawl on the flight. Now three women who claimed they were injured during the fight are suing Spirit Airlines 

The women claim that Spirit Airlines did not do enough to protect them and that the carrier were serving too much alcohol 

The women claim that Spirit Airlines did not do enough to protect them and that the carrier were serving too much alcohol 

After the incident footage of the brawl emerged online and the female passengers appear to be throwing punches, pulling at each other's hair and screaming as other passengers look on.

Some passengers move out of the way of the scuffle, while many others can be seen filming it on their cellphones.

The crew notified LAX police and officers were waiting for the women when the flight landed.

Speaking at the time, LAX Police spokesman Rob Pedregon described the incident to The Washington Post as a 'mutual combat situation'.

A spokesman for Spirit Airlines denied the claims saying the flight attendants were in their jump seats as required by law and it is their policy not to over-serve alcohol

A spokesman for Spirit Airlines denied the claims saying the flight attendants were in their jump seats as required by law and it is their policy not to over-serve alcohol

'It's just one of those things,' Pedregon said.

'People in the air, stuck in a small confined space for a number of hours.

'It isn't uncommon. People lose their tempers and just refuse to get along.'

The FBI were also called in, as per procedure and all five were pulled off the plane and interviewed. However no one was arrested or charged.

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